Cinematography 4

I am a coward.
I went back to cinematics with water because every time I tried with an organic movement (cliff diving, ski jumping, crowds) it looked so WRONG.

So I picked this. I'm proud of it for sure because stilled water looks really cool, but disappointed that the human movements defeated me.

Cinematography 3

Again I run into the problem of looping an organic movement. Here I have a man talking to himself in the mirror, but as you can see changing the opacity creates a problem once again.

I wonder if it would be better to ignore the opacity and just deal with the stilted glitchy movements. However, there must be a way around this, running it backwards or something. I'll figure it out.

Cinematography 2

I have discovered my greatest downfall when it comes to this technique: organics
When it came to looping water it was easy, because water naturally continues in a loop. When it comes to anything with organic movement, even if it is circular, it becomes REALLY HARD to manage without having mistakes in masking.

Here I masked the mirror of this little ballerina, but as you can see the opacity changing and the masking kind of... backfired? It doesn't look great. I tried a bunch of things and this was the best I could do.

As you can see from the original video, the ballerina moves in a circle - I couldn't find a good video of a ballerina rooted to the spot. Because of this, it was hard to find a portion of the video to use that didn't have the original ballerina in front of the mirror, while the mirror ballerina was doing something interesting.

Cinematography 1

Well, that looks a lot easier than it actually is.

Here is my cinematic thing. For goodness' sake, REMEMBER THE SHORTCUT TO TAKE A PICTURE: Shift+Alt+Ctrl+E It's super long and I could not find it ANYWHERE I had to rewatch the entire tutorial video I followed.

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Original Video
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Sketch-Up Project 5

I have a rather ambitious idea for my 3D fit-together project

Ready to print whenever I get time with the printer, can't wait to see how it goes...

Sketch-Up project 4

Time to make more stuff to print! 
I made the pencil holder that fits together, and a smaller pencil holder that is a bit of an optical illusion. 

Sketch-Up Project 3

One of the great things about SketchUp is, after creating a 3D object, you can print it with a 3D Printer, bringing your creating to life!

This block is going to be the first thing I'm going to print.